Jillian Nelson
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292 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Well, thank you so much for having me.
It's been a pleasure.
We've been friends for years and it's nice to finally sit down and join your show.
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It's been quite a journey together and like seeing how it's been nice exciting too to see how both of us have grown.
Like you went from just learning about all of this to running an amazing podcast and now I get to be the policy director.
So we've kind of grown up with the autistic community as things have changed over the years.
Um, so I think autistic queer leadership it's
It's a really
It's still a very foreign concept to a lot of the public policy advocacy world.
Um
the the disability advocacy world is still very, very used to
Um
our poster child leadership that we've historically had.
Um, where we have like the autistic person that's gonna advocate for themselves and speak out, and they're gonna do it alongside their parent who has supported them the whole way and helped them get all the right therapies and help them live independently.
And as we've moved into an era that's a lot more focused on disability justice, we
We've seen a blossoming of autistic queer leadership.
Um, because like you said, like it's it's impossible.
To swing a cat in the autistic community and not find queer people.
Um, we are very well represented in the autistic community.
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